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A farmer grows maize crop in a field year after year. He finds that the yield becomes low. Give one possible reason for it.

The soil becomes depleted in nitrogen and those nutrients, which had been utilized by that crop. This lowers the fertility of the soil. Therefore, the yield becomes low.

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